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Post by ace on Apr 7, 2024 0:25:06 GMT -5
Slowly making my through When Evil Lurks. This movie rules. The dog attacking the little girl has gotta be up there as one of the all-time scares. Also, it's just plainly and simply upsetting to watch. I only ever ask my podcast cohost to watch mainstream horror stuff to talk about on the show but when the end of 2023 was coming around and we were going to do year in review shows he asked me what he should check out to have more to say. He’d seen Godzilla Minus One, Talk To Me, Evil Dead Rise…stuff like that. But he asked so I said check out some When Evil Lurks, Where the Devil Roams…just stuff he would never come across that I had highly rated. I knew what was going to happen but I figured he would knock off a couple and then stop. Well…he watched When Evil Lurks first and then didn’t watch anything else because he spent the week watching fun movies because I got him to watch a horror movie whose only intention is to be a horror movie and he was not equipped for it. He had no history with that kind of bleak unsettling relentless story. But hey…he does now.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Apr 9, 2024 4:02:42 GMT -5
Got the 23rd film picked out for October.The good horror remake with Katie Cassidy. Was surprised at it went in expecting some janky crap.
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Post by DSR on Apr 9, 2024 7:14:31 GMT -5
Got the 23rd film picked out for October.The good horror remake with Katie Cassidy. Was surprised at it went in expecting some janky crap. What's the title?
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Apr 9, 2024 17:07:30 GMT -5
Got the 23rd film picked out for October.The good horror remake with Katie Cassidy. Was surprised at it went in expecting some janky crap. What's the title? Black Xmas 2006 and got in Killer Barbys today. Nice looking and sounding Blu Ray.
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Post by mystermystery on Apr 9, 2024 17:31:54 GMT -5
Watched a Tubi Original titled 'YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE LET ME IN' which, with a title like that, you can guess is a vampire movie. A group of women having a bachelorette party end up renting an exotic home through AirBnB and...uh-oh the owner is a vampire.
Very tongue-in-cheek with the plotting (but not trying to be outwardly funny despite the fact that the vampire has to get the girls to invite him back into his own home since they are technically in control of it through their rental contract), it tells a simple story rather well while playing with a few of the expected tropes. One of the better Tubi Original offerings I've seen.
It's directed by Dave Parker who also did THE HILLS RUN RED and PUPPET MASTER: DOKTOR DEATH.
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I also caught NIGHT SWIM on Peacock before Wrestlemania and daggone if it didn't hit the spot for the "Amityville Pool" movie I wanted. I understand why many didn't care for it, but I got enough enjoyment with the nonsense it presented (I cannot believe the scene where the mother goes to visit a woman who used to live in the home. Dear goodness, what absurdness).
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Post by DSR on Apr 9, 2024 19:53:33 GMT -5
Watched a Tubi Original titled 'YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE LET ME IN' which, with a title like that, you can guess is a vampire movie. A group of women having a bachelorette party end up renting an exotic home through AirBnB and...uh-oh the owner is a vampire. Very tongue-in-cheek with the plotting (but not trying to be outwardly funny despite the fact that the vampire has to get the girls to invite him back into his own home since they are technically in control of it through their rental contract), it tells a simple story rather well while playing with a few of the expected tropes. One of the better Tubi Original offerings I've seen. It's directed by Dave Parker who also did THE HILLS RUN RED and PUPPET MASTER: DOKTOR DEATH. ~~~~~~~~ I also caught NIGHT SWIM on Peacock before Wrestlemania and daggone if it didn't hit the spot for the "Amityville Pool" movie I wanted. I understand why many didn't care for it, but I got enough enjoyment with the nonsense it presented (I cannot believe the scene where the mother goes to visit a woman who used to live in the home. Dear goodness, what absurdness). Now I kinda want to do a triple feature of LET ME IN, DON'T LET THEM IN, and YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE LET ME IN.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Apr 9, 2024 23:56:37 GMT -5
Via the Tremors big boxed set I watched the first episode of the tv show tonight.
Decent way to set up the series,been told it is pretty much downhill from episode 1.
Finished up Ash vs Evil Dead. Season 1 ewas great. Season 2 was almost as good and would have made a great ending for the series. Season 3 first half was good. Then it nose dived into crap and that ending.
Tried to be vague to not spoil it. If you like Evil dead 1 and 2 this set on DVD is 15 bucks right now. Worth it for the first 2 seasons. Plus each episode appears to have a commentary,many with Campbell.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Apr 10, 2024 0:05:57 GMT -5
Had a fan a bit older than me contact me 2 weeks ago. Wanted to know if I had various issues of the Weston mags. I did. Was 30 bucks worth. Cut him a deal dropped it to 25 bucks. Knowing i had this coming in ordered the above blu ray. Jess Franco is hit or miss to even his die hard fans. And by the mid 90s...his hits were as often as the White Sox win the World Series. Heard of this musical/horror/gothic drama movie for years. Blu Ray was cheap and free shipping. Take one of those late 60s Hammer Horror movies. Make it way sleazier and slapdash. The Blu has 3 audio options. English and french appear to be dubs and are two channel stereo. The Spanish audio seems to mostly match the lips and is 5.1. English subs are fairly close to the English Dub. Bonus you get a commentary with noted "cult movie expert" Troy Howarth. Worth grabbing if you want a mid 90s film where a punk band in Spain has their scooby doo van break down on the way to a gig. Most of hte band goes off to the nearby castle,leaving one couple in the van. And killings start. This really feels like something made in the 70s and I would rent in the 80s. Usually in a big box with gory art that didnt really match the film.
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Post by mystermystery on Apr 11, 2024 20:56:35 GMT -5
Via the Tremors big boxed set I watched the first episode of the tv show tonight. Decent way to set up the series,been told it is pretty much downhill from episode 1. Finished up Ash vs Evil Dead. Season 1 ewas great. Season 2 was almost as good and would have made a great ending for the series. Season 3 first half was good. Then it nose dived into crap and that ending. Tried to be vague to not spoil it. If you like Evil dead 1 and 2 this set on DVD is 15 bucks right now. Worth it for the first 2 seasons. Plus each episode appears to have a commentary,many with Campbell. What order are the Tremors episodes in? Original release or originally intention? I remember (I believe) SS Wilson talking about how they had them move up the big Christopher Lloyd episode so they could use it to hype the show, which took their original pilot (that introduced his character and set up his inventiveness but didn't have him as a major focus) and shoved it to the sixth or so episode in the season (so it was modified to a "I remember when I first arrived in Perfection" flash back episode). Sci-Fi messing with the order led to the two "Burt-Less" episodes being back-to-back which also didn't help things. It still hit the ratings they wanted but (to no real surprise) it never stood a chance as they were using it to hold a spot while Stargate: Atlantis got up and running. Daggone, if I wasn't the biggest Tremors fan in high school. I watched that show every week.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Apr 11, 2024 22:03:08 GMT -5
Via the Tremors big boxed set I watched the first episode of the tv show tonight. Decent way to set up the series,been told it is pretty much downhill from episode 1. Finished up Ash vs Evil Dead. Season 1 ewas great. Season 2 was almost as good and would have made a great ending for the series. Season 3 first half was good. Then it nose dived into crap and that ending. Tried to be vague to not spoil it. If you like Evil dead 1 and 2 this set on DVD is 15 bucks right now. Worth it for the first 2 seasons. Plus each episode appears to have a commentary,many with Campbell. What order are the Tremors episodes in? Original release or originally intention? I remember (I believe) SS Wilson talking about how they had them move up the big Christopher Lloyd episode so they could use it to hype the show, which took their original pilot (that introduced his character and set up his inventiveness but didn't have him as a major focus) and shoved it to the sixth or so episode in the season (so it was modified to a "I remember when I first arrived in Perfection" flash back episode). Sci-Fi messing with the order led to the two "Burt-Less" episodes being back-to-back which also didn't help things. It still hit the ratings they wanted but (to no real surprise) it never stood a chance as they were using it to hold a spot while Stargate: Atlantis got up and running. Daggone, if I wasn't the biggest Tremors fan in high school. I watched that show every week. Appears to be original intention. Lloyd just showed up in episode 5 for the first time. Decent show,the FX budget is low,thinking we might finish it up this weekend. The episodes being 40+ minutes means we don't blow through as many as Ash vs Evil dead,where in an hour you could almost get 3 episodes watched.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Apr 13, 2024 21:00:46 GMT -5
Revenge of the Dead (1983) AKA Zeder I have a pile of Code Red / Scorpion Releasing movies and figured I’d pop this one in. I’ve definitely heard of both titles a lot over the years and they’re both pretty cool (albeit the first being fairly generic). Unfortunately as far as the movie goes in relation to the title this is less like Cannibal Apocalypse and more like Bloodsucking Nazi Zombies. That is to say rather than kicking ass, the movie kind of sucks ass. Okay, that’s a bit unfair. It’s very atmospheric and feels like a giallo with supernatural elements. It’s just unfortunate that this is one of the countless examples of a giallo or a mystery or a thriller or a whatever movie being marketed as a gory horror movie when it’s really not the case. Sure there is some horror, even some zombies. But it’s much more like the lesser work of Dario Argento than the better work of Lucio Fulci or Umberto Lenzi. If you’re a giallo completist or something I’d say this is worth tracking down as its definitely not the worst in the genre I’ve seen. But don’t expect much fast pace action and certainly no gratuitous bloodshed.
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Post by mystermystery on Apr 22, 2024 20:50:18 GMT -5
Saw LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL on Shudder this weekend and its ending has a solid "VHS" feeling style to it but the movie as a whole was very well done and enjoyable. I don't know who did the casting, but every person felt right in their roles. It all just fit.
I also did a first time viewing of THE CHANGELING and that thing is very deserving of its classic status. George C Scott was seriously great.
My weirdo watch of the weekend was Dean Koontz's WHISPERS which is about a woman who fights off an attacker, is called a liar by the police, and resorts to killing the man when he returns to finish the job. The only problem? He keeps showing up trying to get revenge for her killing him. Is it all in her head or is there something else going on? It turns into a weirdo police procedural when one cop believes (and obviously falls in love with) her and tries to figure out what's going on...and boy...what an answer.
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Post by Saiyanic Panic on Apr 22, 2024 23:14:32 GMT -5
Now I kinda want to do a triple feature of LET ME IN, DON'T LET THEM IN, and YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE LET ME IN. Instead of being so indecisive of whether they should be in or out watch Watcher, Watchers, The Watcher and the Watchers!
-side note- Way back when the La Petite daycare I went to played Watchers. The attendant had to return it that day or pay a late fee and played the odds and lost that the kids wouldn't report back to their parents. I've never seen it again but I have a distinct memory of a Bigfoot thing plucking people's eyes out.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Apr 23, 2024 20:08:29 GMT -5
Watched Stuart Gordon Presents DeathBed last night. Thankfully the DVD came with Gordon's Castle Freak too.
Not sure what all Gordon did with Deathbed besides get a check to put his name over it. It is a stinky stinky turd of a film.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Apr 23, 2024 20:40:13 GMT -5
Watched Stuart Gordon Presents DeathBed last night. Thankfully the DVD came with Gordon's Castle Freak too. Not sure what all Gordon did with Deathbed besides get a check to put his name over it. It is a stinky stinky turd of a film. Was it the oversized Stuart Gordon collection? I have it somewhere. It’s only three movies, but needlessly clunky. I agree that, that version of Deathbed was awful. The Pit and the Pendulum is also on the set though and that’s a lot of fun
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Apr 23, 2024 21:56:19 GMT -5
Watched Stuart Gordon Presents DeathBed last night. Thankfully the DVD came with Gordon's Castle Freak too. Not sure what all Gordon did with Deathbed besides get a check to put his name over it. It is a stinky stinky turd of a film. Was it the oversized Stuart Gordon collection? I have it somewhere. It’s only three movies, but needlessly clunky. I agree that, that version of Deathbed was awful. The Pit and the Pendulum is also on the set though and that’s a lot of fun Nah this was a Deathbed release "with full movie as an extra feature CASTLE FREAK". I got Stuarts P&P on another dvd. Think I got either all or almost all of Gordon's films. Deathbed felt like most modern Full Moon movies,like it would make a decent 20 minute short film but is stretchedd out to 70 minutes cause Band is scared of doing anthologies for some weird reasons. Pulse Pounders PTSD maybe?
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Apr 23, 2024 23:17:13 GMT -5
Was it the oversized Stuart Gordon collection? I have it somewhere. It’s only three movies, but needlessly clunky. I agree that, that version of Deathbed was awful. The Pit and the Pendulum is also on the set though and that’s a lot of fun Nah this was a Deathbed release "with full movie as an extra feature CASTLE FREAK". I got Stuarts P&P on another dvd. Think I got either all or almost all of Gordon's films. Deathbed felt like most modern Full Moon movies,like it would make a decent 20 minute short film but is stretchedd out to 70 minutes cause Band is scared of doing anthologies for some weird reasons. Pulse Pounders PTSD maybe? I just looked up the release and it looks like it was from that brief spell when Full Moon was Shadow Films/Shadow Entertainment. It makes sense since Deathbed came out in 2002, which is the only reason they could have had to push Deathbed as the A picture. Just because it was more recent. Any other time Castle Freak would definitely get the A picture spot since why include a bonus movie better than the main feature lol. This thread brought me back to Stuart Gordon’s IMDB page. I didn’t realize that though he died in 2020, he hadn’t made a traditional full-length movie since 2007 with Stuck.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Apr 23, 2024 23:35:49 GMT -5
Nah this was a Deathbed release "with full movie as an extra feature CASTLE FREAK". I got Stuarts P&P on another dvd. Think I got either all or almost all of Gordon's films. Deathbed felt like most modern Full Moon movies,like it would make a decent 20 minute short film but is stretchedd out to 70 minutes cause Band is scared of doing anthologies for some weird reasons. Pulse Pounders PTSD maybe? I just looked up the release and it looks like it was from that brief spell when Full Moon was Shadow Films/Shadow Entertainment. It makes sense since Deathbed came out in 2002, which is the only reason they could have had to push Deathbed as the A picture. Just because it was more recent. Any other time Castle Freak would definitely get the A picture spot since why include a bonus movie better than the main feature lol. This thread brought me back to Stuart Gordon’s IMDB page. I didn’t realize that though he died in 2020, he hadn’t made a traditional full-length movie since 2007 with Stuck. THat is the release I got. In one of those extra thick BLOCKBUSTER rental cases. Full Moon was Shadow for what 3 years tops?
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Apr 24, 2024 2:11:02 GMT -5
I just looked up the release and it looks like it was from that brief spell when Full Moon was Shadow Films/Shadow Entertainment. It makes sense since Deathbed came out in 2002, which is the only reason they could have had to push Deathbed as the A picture. Just because it was more recent. Any other time Castle Freak would definitely get the A picture spot since why include a bonus movie better than the main feature lol. This thread brought me back to Stuart Gordon’s IMDB page. I didn’t realize that though he died in 2020, he hadn’t made a traditional full-length movie since 2007 with Stuck. THat is the release I got. In one of those extra thick BLOCKBUSTER rental cases. Full Moon was Shadow for what 3 years tops? Yeah from just 2002-2004.
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Post by mystermystery on Apr 28, 2024 13:41:06 GMT -5
After watching all three FEAST movies, I can't help but wonder if I would've enjoyed them if I were still in High School because, in all honesty, that whole thing was such a dreadful drag to get through, which bums me out after hearing an old podcast with director John Gulager about how the continuously cut budgets of his films caused him to lose the love of making them.
There are a few jokes between all three films that I laughed at, but it was mainly just...not my bag, man.
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